June 1830 General Conference
General Conference has been a major part of Mormonism since its official organization in 1830. It has also been a major part of my blog, and I wanted to give them their due. So, for the month of October, I will go over the most historically important general conferences in history. For the first entry, I will be including a description of the first ever general conference from the History of the Church by Joseph Smith, Located in Volume 1, Chapter 9, pg. 84-85. On the ninth day of June 1830, we held our first conference as an organized Church. Our numbers were about thirty, besides whom believers or anxious to learn. Having opened by singing and prayer, we partook together of the emblems of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. We then proceeded to confirm several who had lately been baptized, after which we called out and ordained several to the various offices of the Priesthood. Much exhortation and instruction was given, and the Holy Ghost was poured out upon us in...